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+Source: recoll
+Section: x11
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libqt3-headers, libqt3-mt-dev, qt3-dev-tools, libxapian-dev
+Standards-Version: 3.7.2
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+Package: recoll
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: aspell
+Description: a personal full text search package with a QT GUI
+ The Recoll personal full text search package is based on a very strong
+ backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich
+ interface.
+ .
+ Features:
+ * QT-based GUI.
+ * Supports the following document types (and their compressed versions):
+ - Natively: text, html, OpenOffice files, maildir and mailbox
+ (Mozilla and Thunderbird mail ok) with attachments, gaim log files.
+ - With external helpers: pdf (pdftotext), postscript (ghostscript),
+ msword (antiword), excel, ppt (catdoc), rtf (unrtf),
+ * Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on
+ file types and directory tree.
+ * Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
+ Unicode UTF-8.
+ * Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
+ indexing)
+ * Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
+ necessary.
+ * An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
+ external, cron'able program.
+ .
+ Homepage: <http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll>